Less focus on the tedious unimportant moments. The entire book is played upon politics in a way that is incredibly tedious. Simply not interesting and not well written. Unsympathetic characters. Bad dialogue

Has Dreadnaught turned you off from other books in this genre?

No

Would you be willing to try another one of Christian Rummel and Jack Campbell (Introduction) ’s performances?

This continues The Lost Fleet saga in new series. Since the fleet found home, I guess Campbell (Hemry) wanted to change he name of the saga in some way; but if you listened the first Lost Fleet, this picks up right where Victorious, the 6th book in Lost Fleet series, left off. I hope The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier becomes a very long saga for Black Jack!

Nice start to the continuation of the Lost Fleet Series. However, I was disappointed be a couple things. First, the narration overruns more then in the past. For example, two characters will be having a conversation and then abruptly it will be the next day and something else will be happening without any pause. There were a few times it was very disorienting.
Secondly, I was disappointed that Alliance politics took up the first quarter of the book. I guess Jack Campbell wanted to create some suspense and mystery but it just confused me. I guess I was hoping the politics would all be shuffled off to the other spin-off series but I guess there is a point to it in the end.

The best part of the book was the 2 minute pitch from the author - which was a concept that was never fully realized. Maybe he'll get to it in book 2. The characters were so so. The plot took forever to get going. Something finally happened with 4 hours remaining.

The narrator was just ok, but I found his female characters sounded annoying.

I think the dramatic elements are a little heavy handed. The twists (and potential twists) are over explained and then explained again later. Nothing is a surprise because of the heavy forshadowing. The characters are a little cliche - the strong honorable man trying to fix a broken system and needs a sassy strong (but not too strong) woman by his side to get things done. Love forbidden by their roles, but nevertheless survives.

The most interesting idea is the alien race - teased in the foreword by the author - but this doesn't really enter the story until almost the end. At this pacing it feels like I would need to read 3 or 4 books to get anywhere with that plot line...and I am just not interested in another one.

I really tried to like this book but when the story wasn't over and the book ended I was left wanting but my first thoughts were I guess that's okay cuz I was glad that I didn't have to listen to it anymore and I love sci-fi books.

This is my first Jack Campbell book, and it became apparent that there was a large series before this i missed. It was well written though, and still flowed even without that knowledge. the book wasn't my style though, as it was mostly politics and life aboard a ship. While this isn't bad, it just isn't... interesting enough... to keep my interest. basically a well written story about boring things.